The Invisible Orange presents: KAYO DOT with guests: XASTHUR and THE NAUSEA Live in Vancouver!
KAYO DOT
Kayo Dot is less a band than a twenty-year act of radical composition. Led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Toby Driver, the project has evolved through ten full-length albums, each one a rupture and a reinvention. Since its founding in 2003, Kayo Dot has functioned as a mutable vessel for Driver’s search for form, intensity, and transformation—its output spanning chamber-metal, spectral jazz, gothic synthscapes, and genreless music that critics have struggled to define but which has left deep marks on underground music culture. Working closely with librettist and conceptualist Jason Byron, the band’s work blends philosophical themes, mythic architecture, and violent emotionality into what amounts to a long-form, evolving autobiography—a sonic document of the artist haunted by his own past.
Now, in 2025, Kayo Dot prepares to release Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason, an album created to mark the project’s twentieth anniversary but designed to undermine the very idea of legacy. The new work reunites original members and introduces new collaborators, reworking the past as a kind of hauntological feedback loop. Custom-built microtonal organs and guitars, tuned just outside standard intonation, subtly distort familiar sounds into something strange and otherworldly, while Byron’s texts return to themes of memory, trauma, and the search for meaning through symbolic patterns. Driver has called the new style "liminal metal"—a sound rooted in thresholds and drift, music that appears to be emerging from and collapsing into its own archive.
https://www.instagram.com/kayodotofficial
https://www.facebook.com/kayodotofficial
https://kayodot.bandcamp.com/
XASTHUR
Xasthur is the project of American musician Scott "Malefic" Conner. Conner formed Xasthur in 1995 and released eight studio albums of black metal by 2010, when he announced the end of the project. However, he began using the name once again in 2015 to instead perform acoustic neofolk music. The first album with this new style was entitled "Subject to Change", released in 2016.
https://www.instagram.com/xasthur_official1/
https://soundcloud.com/xasthur-official
THE NAUSEA
Experimental, Chamber Doom from Vancouver, BC
https://thenausea.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/the.nausea/
***Ages 19 and over***
@kayodotofficial @xasthur_official1 @the.nausea @prophecypro
You may also like the following events from The Invisible Orange:
- Next Friday, 24th October, 07:00 pm, THE BRAINS // THE FOMITES // THE GNAR GNARS Live in Victoria. October 24, 2025 @ Lucky Bar in Victoria
- Next Saturday, 25th October, 06:00 pm, TEN YEARS OF DEAD QUIET. October 25, 2025 @ The Rickshaw in Vancouver
- Next Saturday, 25th October, 07:00 pm, THE BRAINS // THE FOMITES // STILTSKINS (Nanaimo). October 25, 2025 @ The Terminal Bar in Nanaimo
Also check out other
Music events in Vancouver,
Entertainment events in Vancouver,
Arts events in Vancouver.
